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fDR TALMAGE's SERMON, SEPT. 18TH
BBooKLYN, September 1S.-After being
cloaed-for some weeks for Improvements
adsenlargement the Brooklyn Tabernacle
Was opened to-day The same overwhelm-
ing throngs were in attendance as before.
The congregation sang with great effect the
hymn; so
Before Jehovah's awful throne
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone.
He can create and He destroy"
After explaining appropriate passages of
Scripture, DR.. Talmage took his text from
Genesis. xii, Al: "And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph: See, have set thee over all the
land of Egypt" The subject of the sermon
was "The Prime Minister" DR.. Talmage
saidg
You cannot keep good man down. God
has decreed for him a certain elevation to
which he must attain. He will bring him
through though it cost Him thousand
worlds. There are men constantly in trou-
BILE lest they shall not be appreciated. Eve
ry man comes in the end to be valued at
Just what he is worth. How often you see
men turn out all their forces to crush one
man or set of men. How do they succeed
No better than did the government that
tried to crush Joseph, Scripture character
upon which we speak to-day. 1t would be
an insult to suppose that you were not all
familiar with the life of Joseph; how his
Jealous brothers threw him into the pit, but,
seeing caravan of Arabian merchants
moving along on their camels with spices
and gums that loaded the air with aroma,
sold their brother to these merchants, who
carried him down into Egypt; how Joseph
was sold to Potiphar, q man of influence
and Office; how by his integrity he raised
himself to high position in the realm, until
under the false charge of vile wretch he
was hurled into the penitentiary; how in
prison he commanded respect and confd-
ence; how by the Interpretation of Pharaoh's
man in government, the Bismarck of the
nation; how in time of famine Joseph had
the control of storehouse which he had
filed during the seven years of plenty; how
when his brothers who had thrown him in
to the pit and sold him into captivity ap-
piled for corn he sent them home with their
beasts borne down under the heft of the
corn sacks; how the sin against their broth
er, which had so long been hidden, came out
at last, and was returned by that brothers.
forgiveness and kindness-an illustIious tri-
umph Of Christian principle.
Learn from this story, in the first place,
that the world is compelled TO honor. Chris
tian character. Potiphar was only a man
of the world, yet Joseph rose in his estima-
ton until all the affairs of that great house
were committed to his charge. From this
servant no honors or condolences were with
held. When Joseph was in prison he soon
won the heart of the keeper, and, though
placed there for being a scoundrel, he soon
convinced the jailer that ne was aninnocent
and trustworthy man, and released from
close confinement, he became a general su-
perintendent of prison affairs. Wherever
Joseph was placed, whether a servant in the
house of Potiphar or prisoner i'll the peni-
tentiary, he became the first man every
where and is an illustration of the truth
lay down that the wotld is compelled to
honor Christian character.
There are those who affect to despise a
religious life. They speak of it as a system
of phlebotomy by which man is bled of all
his courage and nobility. They say he has
hemeaned himself. They pretend to have
no more confidence in him since his CONVEX
sion than before his conversion. But all
that is hypocrisy. 1t is impossible for any
man not to admire and confide In a Chris
tian who shows that he has really become a
child of God and is what he processes to be.
You cannot despise son or daughter OF the
Lord God Almighty. Of course half and
half religious character wins no approba-
ton. Redwald, the king of the Saxons, af-
for the worship of God and the other for the
sacrifice of devils. You may have a con-
tempt for such men, for mere pretension of
religion, but when you behold the excel
lency of Jesus Christ come out in the life of
one of his disciples, all that there is good
and noble in your soul rises up into admira-
ton. Though that Christian be as far
beneath you in state as the Egyptian slave
of whom we are discussing, by an irrevoca-
BILE law of our nature Potiphar and Pharaoh
will always esteem Joseph. Chrysostom
when threatened with death by Eudoxia,
the empress, sent word to her saying, "Go
tell her that l fear nothing but SIM" Such
nobility. of character will always be applaud
ed. There was something in Agrippa and
Felix which demanded their respect for
Paul the rebel against government.
doubt not they would willingly have yield
ed their Office and dignity for the thousandth
part of that true heroism which beamed in
the eye and beat in the heart of the uncon-
ouerable apostle, The infdel and world
ling are compelled to honor in their hearts,
though they may not eulOgise with their
lips, a Christian firm in persecution, cheer
ful.in poverty, trustfuli in losses, triumphant
in death. find Christian men in all pro-
fessions and occupations, and find them
respected, and honored, and successful
| John Frederick Oberlin alleviating ignor-
ance and distress. John Howard passing
| from dungeon to lazaretto with healing for
the body and the soul, Elizabeth Frye COM
| ing to the profigate Of Newgate prison to
shake down their obduracy as the angel
came to the prison at Philippi, driving open
the doors and swapping locks and chains, as
| well as the lives of thousands of the follow
ers of Jesus who have devoted themselves
to the temporal and spiritual welfare of the
race, are monuments of the Christian reli-
gion that shall not crumble while the world
lasts. A man in the cars said: 81 would
like to become Christian if I only knew
what religion is. But if this lying and
cheating and bad behavior among men who
profess to be good is religion, / want none
of it," But, my friends, if 1 am an artist
| in Rome and man comes to me and asks
what the art of painting, is, must not show
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